TY - GEN N2 - No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass' Narrative. In an introductory essay, Robert Stepto re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of America's most important writers. The John Harvard Library text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845. DO - 10.4159/9780674053755 DO - doi AB - No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass' Narrative. In an introductory essay, Robert Stepto re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of America's most important writers. The John Harvard Library text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845. T1 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass :An American Slave, Written by Himself / AU - Douglass, Frederick, AU - Stepto, Robert B. AU - Stepto, Robert B., JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 CN - E449 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1478814 KW - Abolitionists KW - Abolitionists KW - African American abolitionists KW - African American abolitionists KW - Slaves KW - Slaves KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. SN - 9780674053755 TI - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass :An American Slave, Written by Himself / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674053755 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674053755 ER -